Mulgrave Freeway
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Monash Freeway Victoria |
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| Type | Freeway |
| Length | 34 km (21 mi) |
| Opened | 1972–2003 |
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for full list see exits and interchanges |
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| Major suburbs / towns | Chadstone, Mulgrave, Doveton, Narre Warren |
M1 (1997–present)
State Route 80 (1965–1973)
Freeway Route 80 (1972–1988)
Freeway Route 81 (1973–1988)
National Route 1 (1988–1997)
The Monash Freeway is a major urban freeway in Victoria, Australia, linking Melbourne's CBD to its south-eastern suburbs and beyond to the Gippsland region. It carries up to 180,000 vehicles per day and is one of Australia's busiest freeways. The entire stretch of the Monash Freeway bears the designation M1. The freeway was originally shown in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F9 and F14 Freeway corridors.
The Monash Freeway is an amalgamation of two initially separate freeways: the Mulgrave Freeway (initially designated Freeway Route 81) linking Warrigal Road, Chadstone to the Princes Highway in Eumemmerring; and the South Eastern Freeway (initially designated Freeway Route 80) linking Punt Road, Richmond and Toorak Road, Hawthorn East. Because it is well-used and often slow in peak hours, it is sometimes jokingly referred to as the south-eastern car park.
The initial section of the Mulgrave Freeway was opened to traffic in 1972, with bi-directional interchanges with Heatherton and Stud Roads. Later in the 1970s and in the early 1980s it was progressively extended westward to Forster Road - with additional interchanges at Blackburn, Ferntree Gully, Wellington and Jacksons Roads (and eventually Police Road during the early to mid 90's) - then to Huntingdale Road, and finally to Warrigal Road in Chadstone. Construction at the Hallam end extended underneath an interchange at the Princes Highway and southwards along the old alignment of the South Gippsland Highway to the interchange with Dandenong-Hastings Road, now the Westernport Highway at Lyndhurst; this section was initially named the Eumemmerring Freeway, but later named the South Gippsland Freeway. The Freeway Route 81 designation was dropped in 1988, coinciding with the opening of the South Eastern Arterial.
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